Spin & Go at PokerStars

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

PokerStars is giving its players the chance to win up to $30,000 in the space of a few minutes courtesy of its new Spin & Go tables.

Spin & Go games take place at three-handed hyper-turbo Sit & Go tournaments with buy-ins of $1, $3, $7, $15 or $30. Players starts with 500 chips with the clock set at 3-minutes. Once all three players are registered to a game, they watch the spinning numbers on screen to see how much the prize pool for that game will be worth – anywhere from 2x the buy-in to 1000x the buy-in.

The buy-ins and their potential prize pools can be seen below:

$1 - $1,000$3 - $3,000$7 - $7,000*$15 - $15,000*$30 - $30,000*

If the highest jackpot prize occurs at the $7, $15 and $30 levels, 10% of the prize pool will be added on top to the second and third place finishers. That will take the overall prize pools will be $8,400, $18,000, and $36,000 respectively.

Within each different buy-in level there are eight possible different multipliers that will determine the prize pool, as follows: 2x, 4x, 6x, 10x, 25x, 100x, 200x, and 1000x.

“Spin & Go is great for so many reasons,” said Team PokerStars pro Jonathan Duhamel. “First, the game lasts just a few minutes, making it perfect for whenever you have some free time, and it’s ideal for mobile play. But the most attractive aspect is the lottery-style prize pool, which means you never know how much you’re going to be playing for. Having the chance to win thousands of dollars from just a few dollars is great, considering you only have to beat two players to win the lot!”

Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.

“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”